On the Imputation of Adam's First Sin · §155

Man. Post. Cap. I: Placeus holds Confession vs Pelagians; Chamier three heads; two additions

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I hold fast, and carefully defend, whatever the truly Christian Church has defined against old and new Pelagians and Semipelagians on original sin, and what she has professed in these later ages by her public confessions. Daniel Chamier—a man of deserved name among our churches—reduced the whole dispute between us and Pighius and Salmeron to three heads. Catholics (he means Protestants), he says, prove by sure arguments that human nature itself has a corruption or pravity proper to each person, distinct from sinful acts; second, that the same is in each even at birth; third, that it rises from Adam and passes to posterity by propagation. Though he adds that these three contain the whole nature of original sin—so that once proved nothing remains—I still add two points for clearer teaching: first, that this corruption so spoils every faculty of the soul that, unless we are born again of water and the Spirit, we can neither bear any truly good fruit nor turn to God; second, that this corruption is truly sin, and makes all Adam's posterity—Christ alone excepted, in whom it never was—guilty of eternal death.

Latin

Ego arcte teneo, accurateque defendo quicquid de peccato originali Ecclesia vere Christiana adversus veteres novosque Pelagianos, et Semipelagianos cum definivit olim, tum his postremis seculis suis publicis confessionibus se credere professa est. Id autem universum Daniel Chamierus, vir suo merito magni apud Ecclesias nostras nominis, statum controversiae inter nos et Pighium ac Salmeronem constituens ad tria capita revocavit. Catholici, inquit, (Protestantes intelligit) certis argumentis docent, ipsi humanae naturae inesse corruptionem, seu pravitatem cuilibet homini propriam, aliam ab actibus peccati. Secundo, etiam nascenti homini cuilibet eandem inesse. Tertio eandem ab Adamo ortum ducere, et per propagationem derivari in posteros. Quamvis autem subjungat, haec tria capita continere universam peccati originalis naturam. Itaque iis demonstratis nihil fore reliqui factum; tamen uberioris explicationis causa duo addam: unum, hanc corruptionem omnes animae nostrae facultates ita depravasse, ut nisi ex aqua et Spiritu renati fuerimus, neque ullum fructum vere bonum proferre, neque ad Deum converti valeamus. Alterum, hanc corruptionem vere peccatum esse, omnes Adami posteros, solo Christo, in quo nunquam fuit, excepto, mortis aeternae reos peragens.

About this text

Josue de la Place (Placeus) — Capita I–XIV partial of De imputatione primi peccati Adami from the 1661 Saumur Latin, through Man. Post. Caput X (GAR.1–3 Rom. 5.13 tip) / before PLAC on reatus-only. Honest partial; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

English follows the locked 1661 Saumur Latin of Capita I–XIV partial through Man. Post. Caput IX (eph-ho / eph-ho pantes) before eph-ho / eph-ho pantes, reconstructed from IA PDF page images with Vision OCR and pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Cap. IX deepen+ remain.

Catalogue & scope

IA deimputationepri00lapl. Densify: Capita I–XII + Caput XIV + Man. Post. Cap. II–VI through Cap. X Rom. 5:14 tip. Not whole Disputatio; Cap. X Rom. 5:14+ / ~494 pp Disputatio remain.

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